we have areas of rain across san francisco and higher snow in washington northern cascades. patti ann another storm impacting parts of texas and louisiana with heavy thunderstorms this morning. >> oh, boy. maria molina. thanks. >> thanks. we are less than an hour away from president obama's arrival in israel for a long-awaited visit. he hasn't been there since 2008 when he was running for president. leland vitter is live in jerusalem with the latest. good morning. >> good morning patty ann a beautiful day for the president to arrive. he is going to head to jerusalem and the west bank. he has his work cut out for him. maybe head to go a friendly country. not a lot of love lost between the israel lie prime minister and president obama to hz a notoriously icy even fridge i had relationship. after the smiles and photo opes will be the conversation of iran, iran, iran. they will try to express some kind of promise where they won't allow iran to get nuclear weapons. he will try to push the israeli as little bit on the issue of the palestinian peace process which will all but end.